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Figure 30: ACORN categories at ward level (pie charts)
The dominant ACORN Categories (the highest level ACORN classification) at output
area level 19 are shown in Figure 31. In October 2009 41% of Hull residents lived in
output areas classified as being „Hard Pressed‟, the most deprived ACORN Category,
with a further 32% living in output areas defined as „Moderate Means‟, the second most
deprived ACORN Category. Only 4% of Hull‟s residents lived in output areas classified
as „Wealthy Achievers‟, the least deprived ACORN Category, with a further 5% living in
output areas defined as „Urban Prosperity‟, the second least deprived ACORN Category.
The remainder, 18%, reside in output areas defined as „Comfortably Off‟. It should be
noted that while 27% of residents of Kings Park are defined as „Wealthy Achievers‟ on
the basis of their postcodes, when the dominant, that is most common, ACORN
Category by output area as extracted from Insite is used, only 4% of residents are
defined as „Wealthy Achievers, with only one output area within King‟s Park having a
19 There are 834 output areas in Hull (which are combined to form the 163 lower layer super output areas
on which the Index of Multiple Deprivation are based).
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